Dr. Philip N. Racine

Dr. Racine received the AB in History from Bowdoin College in 1964, the M. A. (1965) and the Ph.D. in History from Emory University in 1969. He began his career in the History Department at Wofford in 1969. Dr. Racine published multiple chapters in co-authored volumes, 12 research articles, and edited and wrote six books, mostly on the History of the South or the Civil War. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1991, served as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History from 1993 to his retirement, chaired the History department from 1996 to 2008, and directed the Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professorship from its inception in 1996 to his retirement in 2009.